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Fibre - cotton - organic (fibre production - ginning)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is fibre production, cotton, organic, ginning. The Reference Product is fibre, cotton, organic. The product fibre, cotton, organic refers to organic cotton lint which is the raw, unprocessed fibre obtained from the cotton plant after the seeds (cottonseed) have been removed during the ginning process. This product is an especially important raw material in the textile sector where it is further processed and spun into yarn. Organic cotton lint comes from 100% organically farmed cotton. Image: Full Frame Shot of Cracked Pattern by pixabay governed by CC0 licence. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/19880/documentation

PropertyValue
NameFibre - cotton - organic (fibre production - ginning)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryArable Farming
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2016
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.1
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
arable_farming-type_fibre_cotton_organic_fibre_production_cotton_organic_ginning
UUID
d97b0d9b-df03-49eb-8b61-84fb15ac0971
Code Snippet
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